Dizzying contemplations of things yet to come.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,079

What If's Answered:

 

If you’re not called crazy when you start something new, then you’re not thinking big enough.

  

I was thinking while walking yesterday, will we really need cities in the future? Well maybe for places for government employees to go, or for a huddled mass or two. Won’t people be mostly entertained virtually, and candle light dinners delivered by AI transports or something yet to be invented? Won’t almost everybody in the future be working at home and buying on line? Some smaller cities are almost already irrelevant… monuments to glorious pasts – History museums.

 

It was getting late last night. The NCAA Football Championship game was in the fourth quarter and it looked like Alabama was beginning to assert itself as it normally does. But a funny thing happened on my way from turning off the tube to this morning -- the Georgia Bulldogs were the team that asserted themselves and humbled the Mighty Tide. It’s always good to feel good about people who work so hard to be great.

 

A great guy and inveterate reader sent some cool ponderisms which are sprinkled throughout today.

 

Remember when hesitating to make a decision that roads are filled with flat squirrels.

 

The Question:

What US Motor Car Company in 1923 introduced the first Sedan style car?

 

The Headlines:

--Markets Struggling For Direction Awaiting Words From Powell; Markets Conflicted: They Want Slowing Of Inflation But Not Rate Increases Too Soon; First Year End Earning Reports Set For Friday With Focus On Banks.

--It’s Icy Cold Here.

-- First-Ever Pig-To-Human Heart Transplant Performed At U Maryland Med Center.

--CNN Reports -- Stacy Adams To Skip Bidens Atlanta Voting Rights Speech; Voting Rights Groups Say, “We Don’t Need Even More Photo Ops, We Need Action.”

--Half Of Europe Infected With Covid.

--Georgia Beats Bama To Claim First National Championship In 41 Years.

--Covid Paycheck Losses Has Economic Researchers Wondering If Americans Are running Out Of Money.

 

Yesterday I saw a seagull with an empty plastic bottle in its mouth. I tried to take a picture of this for the newspaper thinking how perfect it was as a symbol for a coastal tourism town – A gull and litter.

 

Tip for a successful marriage: Don’t ask your wife when dinner will be ready while she’s mowing the lawn.

 

Hollywood is Bringing Back “Breakout Social Comedy”, White Lotus. I guess my opinion does not agree with America, and certainly not Hollywood. Jeez, was that bad. I like show where there is at least one person I can like.

 

This could be another startup for another monster lawyer advertising campaign on TV: Sixteen major U.S. universities have been accused of violating antitrust laws by collaborating to determine student financial aid awards. They are Yale University, Georgetown University, Northwestern University, Brown University, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Emory University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pennsylvania, Rice University and Vanderbilt University. 5 former students brought the action, It revolves around abuse of “Section 568 of the federal Improving America's Schools Act, universities can collaborate on financial aid strategies as long as they do not consider an applicant's financial need during admissions decisions”. The ads will begin, you “might” have tens of thousands of dollars coming to you. Call our law firm now!

 

When the pool re-opens, due to social distancing rules, there will be no water in lanes 1, 3, and 5.

 

NCAA Basketball this season is looking like it is anybody’s title for the taking. Maybe that’s what the new transfer rule does successfully, levels the playing courts -- at least for the upper echelon conferences. The smaller schools will have to enjoy just winning one for the old school colors. Which, frankly, isn’t so bad after all.

 

I have always enjoyed Harlan Coben mysteries on Netflix. While Harlan is a USA Amherst Grad, his books turned into moves are always British, which to this TV watcher is always better than being in the hands of a some Hollywood director.

 

Today is, “Learn Your Name In Morse Code Day”. A Morse Code typo could be seriously dangerous.

 

The Answer:

It was the Hudson Motor Car Company that first thought it a good idea to enclose passengers. Its seemed to work better in winter.

 

So, you drive across town to a gym to walk on a treadmill?